Failure Is Success Deferred Says Ray Kurzweil

8/20/2013 1:20AM

Google's Ray Kurzweil — author, inventor, innovator and futurist — says we have a culture that understands failures and setbacks and allows for success in the future. "The only person that can declare yourself a failure is yourself," he says.

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... I ... like a college course ... where you get a grade at the end of six months the only person in the claims of failures to sell ... and I've always considered failures just to be success deferred ... and ... if you ... read setbacks ... you can find a different approach ... Edison failed a thousand times ... to to find a filament there was a delightful ... but actually he succeeded in finding a thousand things that didn't work and kept trying ... the rest is this history and ... so what I worry about is not failure but that ye may be skeptical on I think and ... then have to work harder ... ah but it yet if you commit yourself to write project any of the passion for it ... a failure really shouldn't be in you can do and we have a culture that actually ... understands ... setbacks and ... allows people to come back from setbacks and succeed in the future ... the project does fail you succeed in learning something and I actually believe in ... entrepreneurship as a form of education we should bring entrepreneurship and the schools ... and if you're a passion to create something ... when you succeed in that ... product in October you'll succeed learning something ... the singer back as to what I really learned ... to migrate from my projects not from formal learning ... and belief in along the way we use on a copper something you actually learn ... alot about science and technology and about people ...